Pistorius for the day

Charlie Campbell has a Time article about the latest in Oscar's trial:

Neighbors of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius (photo), called as defense witnesses in his murder trial, described finding the distraught man minutes after he fatally shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, and pleading with her to survive. Witnesses called by the defense team attempted to buttress the Paralympian’s assertion that he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after mistaking her for an intruder.
Johan Stander and his daughter Carice Viljoen, who live close to the 27-year-old athlete, testified that they arrived at his Pretoria home soon after the fatal shooting and saw Pistorius urging Steenkamp to keep breathing. “Stay with me, my love, stay with me,” Viljoen told the court that Pistorius said to the dying Steenkamp, 29. “I just saw blood everywhere,” she added. “He kept on begging Reeva to just stay with him.”
She added that she feared Pistorius might kill himself after emergency-response personnel asked him to fetch his deceased girlfriend’s identification. “I was scared that he might shoot himself,” Viljoen testified.
The Blade Runner— so called because of his trademark prosthetic limbs— admits to shooting four times through the toilet door of his villa home with a 9mm pistol on 14 February 2013, but claims he thought an intruder lurked within. Steenkamp was wounded in the hip, arm, and head and died shortly afterward.
Stander, the manager of Pistorius’ plush housing complex, testified that Pistorius phoned him about two minutes after the shooting, at around 3:19 am. “I saw the truth there that morning. I saw it and I feel it,” Stander testified, adding that his famous neighbor was “really crying. He was in pain”.
Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel has forcefully argued that Pistorius had argued with Steenkamp on the night in question, and killed her deliberately in a fit of rage. He asked Stander if he was attempting to “assist” the defense of his friend. “I’m here to give the truth,” Stander replied. “And I think I’ve given the truth, what I saw that morning.”
Pistorius faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder, but also faces lesser charges of culpable homicide, discharging firearms in public, and illegal possession of ammunition. He denies any wrongdoing.

Rico says of course the schmuck denies any wrongdoing; if he didn't, he'd get life...